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Catherine Money

Catherine Money, interviewed by Tom Spurling and Terry Healy, 8 December 2021

Catherine Money was Group Manager of CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology’s Leather Research Centre at Clayton. In 2001, she was appointed Officer-in-Charge, CSIRO Leather Research Centre.

Enid Plante, circa 1940s

Enid Plante, interviewed by Tom Spurling and Jean Swift, 17 January 1986

Enid was the first female appointed to the Physical Chemistry Section of the CSIR Division of Industrial Chemistry at the age of 21.

John Stoker

John Stocker, interviewed by Tom Spurling and Terry Healy, 25 May 2018

John Stocker held the position of Chief Executive at CSIRO from 1990 to 1995

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Research vessel Investigator under construction

RV Investigator skidding time-lapse

The 93.9 metre research vessel, which weighs 6,082 ton, was moved from the wharf to a barge using a hydraulic system, and then towed to a dock, where the barge was submerged, leaving the vessel floating.

The Parkes Control Room, Apollo 11 Mission

Parkes radio telescope and the Apollo 11 Moon landing

In July 1969, the Parkes Observatory played an important role in history, when it received and broadcast the first Moon landing, Apollo 11.

2°C climate target a hot topic

Carbon dioxide emission reductions required to limit global warming to 2°C are becoming a receding goal based on new figures […]

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Mary Ann Augustin

Mary Ann Augustin

Mary Ann Augustin has had several science leadership and multi-disciplinary project leader roles at CSIRO. Her main area of research is in protein structure and immunoparasitology.

Portrait of Gerald Lightfoot

Gerald Lightfoot [1877–1966]

Mr. Lightfoot came to Australia in 1906 and joined the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics where he was responsible for establishing the Bureau's Labour and Industrial Branch and extending it to the main industrial centres of the Commonwealth.

Ruby Payne Scott black and white image

Ruby Payne-Scott [1912-1981]

Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.

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Down to Earth – Episode 3: making compost (1990)

This episode gives a few simple tips that will make all the difference in producing good compost.

Parkes Radio Telescope at sunset.

A Tour of the Parkes Radio Telescope (1979)

Dr Jon Ables, an astronomer with the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, takes us on a tour of the 64 metre radio telescope near Parkes, New South Wales.

Close up view of micro-pipettes.

CSIRO Medals 1995 – Chairman’s Medal – Dr Keith Murray and the AAHL Team

Keith Murray and colleagues (CSIRO Animal Health). For the discovery of a previously unknown equine morbillivirus: a new disease found in horses which can also affect humans.

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